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Nativism
(Desivad)
By Bhalchandra Nemade
This
is an infuriating and yet thoroughly admirable book that will
give the Indian reader a confidence about what our languages
need most – a sense of piety towards our own cultural
environments. That is what the author wants everyone to do,
at least paradoxically, a search for an alternate tradition
which opens within ourselves, preserving even now the history,
orality, living traditions and folklore. Desivad naturally
negates any imagined space that oppresses the real and aggressively
asserts what was otherwise relegated, during the dark phase
of colonialism, to one’s native cultural heritage.
A landmark in Indian critical theory, discussed all over the country from 1980, desivad aspires to be a nationwide movement to counterbalance the homogenizing and hegemonizing effects of a few cultures of nationalism, globalization, internationalism and so on.
The four lectures delivered at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study have caused an intellectual stimulation of a rare sort and a whole new approach to literary criticism.
2009, 196 pp.,
Rs.360,
ISBN: 81:-7986-071-x
